G21F 5/012
Fuel element racks in the containers
G21F5/012 (Fuel element racks in the containers) appears on 137 US grants and 111 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21F- Granted patents
- 137
- Published applications
- 111
- Assignees
- 61
- Inventors
- 243
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 2 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Nuclear waste storage canisters and method of fabricating the same10 Mar 2026US 12,573,515 B2Holtec International
- Storage device for nuclear fuel assemblies19 Aug 2025US 12,394,532 B2Orano Nuclear Packages and Services
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- Storage system for radioactive nuclear waste with pressure surge protection13 May 2025US 12,300,399 B2Holtec International
- Simplified economic ventilated metal storage system (sevmss)20 Nov 2025US 2025/0357015 A1NAC International, Inc.
- Storage device for storing and/or transporting nuclear fuel assemblies, having a design with improved mechanical strength5 Jun 2025US 2025/0182922 A1
- Nuclear waste cask with impact protection, impact amelioration system for nuclear fuel storage, unventilated cask for storing nuclear waste, and storage and transport cask for nuclear waste30 Jan 2025US 2025/0037892 A1Holtec International
- Nuclear materials apparatus and implementing the same2 Jan 2025US 2025/0006393 A1Holtec International
- Nuclear waste storage canisters and method of fabricating the same21 Nov 2024US 2024/0387067 A1Holtec International
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus suitable for transporting and storing nuclear fuel rods and methods for using the apparatus75US 6,064,710 A2000
- Shipping cask for spent nuclear fuel assemblies73US 3,962,587 ANuclear Fuel Services, Inc. · 1976
- Apparatus suitable for transporting and storing nuclear fuel rods and methods for using the apparatus71US 5,898,747 A1999
- Horizontal modular dry irradiated fuel storage system70US 4,780,269 ANutech Company Limited · 1988
- Neutron absorber articles64US 4,780,268 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1988